Posts Tagged ‘street kids’
Children are meant to be in schools, playing with friends, growing up. The street is no place for them. Yet many in India have lost their childhood, earning for their supper. And we call our selves an emerging super-power!
Bringing Back Smiles from Gasper DSouza on Vimeo.
A group of 25 street children enthralled an audience of over a hundred adults with their spectacular performance in Calangute Goa. The kids were trained over a period of 10 days by volunteers from the Italian theater group Laboratory of Smiles under the banner of the “Theatre Per Caso” theater company. The children were from rehab homes run by El Shaddai Trust in Goa.
On a dry Sunday afternoon, a group of 36 children gathered together at the Shanti Niketan school in Assagao and, guided by artist, Devi Prasad Rao, sought to explore their inner artistic selves.
That these kids came from Homes for destitute and street children could have easily been overlooked by a casual observer.
Working on abstract themes, these children produced works that could send art school students surrying for cover.
In the words of Dev, “Creativity has no favourites. All it requires is plain child-like innocence.”
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